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Mexico's progress is the result of more than 30 years of political and economic stability under the uniquely long-lived, seldom heavy-handed rule of P.R.I., the Institutional Revolutionary Party. But P.R.I, and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz have had a scattershot of troubles of late. Within the past 18 months, Diaz Ordaz has had to use paratroopers to quell student strikes on three campuses and militia to put down several rural protests over food prices and campesino grievances. Outside the glittering, wealthy cities live nearly half the people, scratching out incomes that average less than $16 per family...
Fairbank deplored what he felt was the American emphasis on short-term crisis planning in dealing with China. U.S. leaders, he alleged, seldom seem to plot out any long term programs...
...mass produce science books, one of them-a highly understandable tour of mathematics called The Realm of Numbers -in just 13 days. "I knew it all in my head," he explains. "It was just a matter of getting it down." Yet the quality of Asimov's writing seems seldom to suffer from his pounding haste. His New Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1965) and his three-volume Understanding Physics (1966) were praised by lay critics for both lucidity and style...
...seven stories suffer from the same fault: they start promisingly but run down, like jokes with weak punch lines. Part of the fault is MacLaine's. Despite heavy help from the makeup and wardrobe departments, she seldom departs from her customary screen self, and all seven women suffer from an unflatter ing family resemblance. Most of the blame, however, must fall on De Sica, who has wasted such talented actors as Arkin, Sellers, Michael Caine, Philippe Noiret and Vittorio Gassman in a ponderously directed, flaccid work. Better than anyone else, he should know that a tour de farce...
...respite Kuniczak gives his readers is short inconsequential conversations and brief bursts of attempted Joycean lyricism. Laboriously, he relates the personal agonies of a one-armed Polish general and his mistress, a disillusioned American correspondent, a Jewish conscript from the Warsaw ghetto and an idealistic young Nazi officer. Kuniczak seldom strays far from the heated sights and shrieks of battle. At any rate, he seems to have a gift for divining the public taste. This is a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection...